Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

This was different, spontaneous, unrestricted. This was what dancing was supposed to feel like - like freedom.

Happiness is not the end of life character is.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

The Pope? How many divisions has he got?

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

Let's forgive the past and who we were then. Let's embrace the present and who we're capable of becoming. Let's surrender the future and watch miracles unfold.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

Obviously I don't have whatever it is you need to be a successful writer.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.